Larry Siems is a writer and human-rights advocate. He edited and introduced Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary and is the author of The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America’s Post-9/11 Torture Program.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of former “black site” prisoners is now scheduled to go to trial—but in seeking restitution, the detainees have had to relive their torment.